Pamphlet Architecture 25: Gravity

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by James Cathcart, Frank Fantauzzi and Terence van Elslander

Princeton Architectural Press

Due/Published October 2003, 80 pages, paper

ISBN 1568984340

For fifteen years, three architects--James Cathcart, Frank Fantauzzi, and Terence van Elslander--from three different cities have held an ongoing collaboration, creating installations and other works of innovation and art about the act of building. Pamphlet Architecture 25: Gravity catalogs a cross section of their many works, from the portable toilets installed in the facade of New York's StoreFront for Art and Architecture to "Big Orbits," a giant solid and a giant void constructed from 4600 shipping palettes. Although strongly conceptual, their work reminds us that a primary function of architecture is to engage the public. 95 b&w illustrations